Monday, April 5, 2010

Creating with ICTs

The term creativity was integrated into education during the 60s - 70s. Educators and developers developed and awareness for the need of having creative students. They found that the influence of social contexts and environments effected a students creativity.

Creativity and Culture Education (UK, 1990) defined creativity as "imaginative activity fashioned to produce outcomes that are both original and of value."

The purpose of everything created
Blooms Taxonomy

High Order Thinking - While primary learning focuse on knowledge comprehension and application students are capable of. creativity, composing, inventing and hypothesizing.


Analysis - Catagorise, comparing and contrast.

Evaluate - After scaffolding - Students can give an example or opinions, judge, rate, recommend and review their work.

E.g. - Rating the effectiveness of the design
       - The 3 main elements.

Creativity doesn't mean just being limited to Powerpoint and Word. As this next video displays; Death by PowerPoint

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